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MY GARDEN. 



blackbirds have found it out, and scratch up my mosses as badly as, 

 if not worse than, chickens. 



One great favourite of mine, Miiium undulatum (fig. 817), which is 

 as beautiful as any filmy fern, I grow under glass. I have figured 



FIG. 816. Funaria hygrometrica. 



FIG. 818. Mnium cuspidatum. 



FIG. 817. Mnium undulatum. 



also another species, M. cuspidatum (fig. 818), a little moss which 

 grows freely with us over rocks and stones. Sphagnum (fig. 819) does 

 not grow out of doors with me, although I have planted it again 

 and again. This is extensively used in the growth of our orchids. 



FIG. 819. Sphagnum acutifolium. 



FIG. 820. Hypnum ruscifolium. 



We have in our streams the Hypnum ruscifolium (fig. 820). It 

 grows completely under the water, and the specimen from which the 



